Tag: 5S

A few years ago when the racy book 50 Shades of Grey was popular, I created a few parody images. I never published them, probably...

Last week, I wrote a post (part 1) looking back at our visit to the Toyota Tsutsumi factory that was part of our Japan tour that took...

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm doing two different webinars that I hope you'll want to sign up for. Even if you can't attend live, I'd encourage you...

This tweet and photo made me chuckle the other day... If it's "your right" or "your left" as you're going up or down the stairs,...

Tomorrow, I'm leaving for Japan and I'll be with Kaizen Institute for our second Lean healthcare study tour (see a PDF about the trip). We have...

Organizations try to copy each other all the time. It doesn't always work. Manufacturing: A plant manager visits another factory and sees neatly organized tools...

Thanks to my friend and former Toyota employee Karthik Chandramouli for noticing this commercial on TV. In the 60-second piece, GE highlights how their advisors...

I was recently interviewed by one of the reporters who put together this web article in Canada: "From the factory floor to the emergency department:...

This commercial made me chuckle as somebody who has bought and used a lot of Brother label makers. The video is meant to comically show...

Today's post is being hosted by the Lean Enterprise Institute and their "Lean Post" blog... click on the headline below or the image to...

Long-time readers might remember this post of mine from February 2007: Bad Lean/5S Hits the UK Media Please check out that post. It's a classic example...

In March, I wrote a post titled "Is it Lean's Fault or the Old Management System's?" about how people's complains about Lean are actually...